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How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes
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Executeprogram
Execute Program
Learn it. Code it. Remember it.
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Google Wave’s failure is a lesson for modern real-time collaboration tools
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Taskade Blog
Google Wave's Failure is a Great Lesson for Modern Real-Time Collaboration Tools | Taskade Blog
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Google Wave was a tool like no other at the time. It was a unified workspace and collaboration platform before the remote work boom happened.
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Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates
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New Scientist
Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates
Soil’s earthy smell comes from chemicals produced by bacteria called Streptomyces, which use the odour to attract springtails to help disperse their spores
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Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought – CDC study
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ThinkPol
COVID-19 twice as contagious as previously thought – CDC study
A person with COVID-19 could infect up to 6 others – not 2 or 3 …
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Zuckerberg’s Jealousy Held Back Instagram and Drove Off Founders
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Bloomberg
Zuckerberg’s Jealousy Held Back Instagram and Drove Off Founders
The Facebook CEO promised Kevin Systrom independence, but an excerpt from Sarah Frier’s book No Filter shows that only lasted until Instagram started to look like the favorite son.
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Dear internet: We must ban targeted advertising immediately
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Fathom Analytics
We must ban targeted advertising immediately
The solution to one of our most challenging privacy issues of today could have the simplest answer.
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Zoom Sued for Fraud over Privacy, Security Flaws
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Bloomberg.com
Zoom Sued for Fraud Over Privacy, Security Flaws
Zoom Video Communications Inc. was accused by a shareholder of hiding flaws in its video-conferencing app, part of a growing backlash against security loopholes that were laid bare after an explosion in worldwide usage.
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WHO study on Covid-19: We estimated that the median of estimated R0 is 5.7
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Emerging Infectious Diseases journal
High Contagiousness and Rapid Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
High Contagiousness and Rapid Spread of SARS-CoV-2
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Mitchell Baker Named CEO of Mozilla
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The Mozilla Blog
Mitchell Baker Named CEO of Mozilla
The independent directors of the Mozilla board are pleased to announce that Mitchell Baker has been appointed permanent CEO of Mozilla Corporation. We have been conducting an external candidate search ...
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I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust
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A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal
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GitHub
KillerFeature/WT64
A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal. Contribute to KillerFeature/WT64 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Airbnb’s Coronavirus Crisis: Burning Cash, Angry Hosts and an Uncertain Future
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WSJ
Airbnb’s Coronavirus Crisis: Burning Cash, Angry Hosts and an Uncertain Future
With travel nearly at a standstill, the home-sharing giant is facing increasing losses and doubts about its planned public listing.
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Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
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Ars Technica
Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
Thanks to the pandemic, radiocarbon dating and further excavations are on hold.
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Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom
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Hours
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Cute Bouncing Bunnies
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A novelist friend introduced me to a productivity technique I’ve found effective. I spread it to my friends, and now to my horror management types have discovered it. A friend just told me he…
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Anton (Computer)
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AI: Foundations of Computational Agents, Second Edition
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I graduated into the dot com bust as a programmer and made it – you will too
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Built In
I Graduated Into The Dot Com Bust As A Programmer And Made It. You Will Too. | Built In
As someone who entered the job market during the dot com bust, I want all the young programmers worrying about this uncertain job market to know, things will get better.
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“I, along with almost all of Disney Imagineering, am furloughed without pay”
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Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM [video]
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How Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM | War Stories | Ars Technica
Cyan Worlds co-founder Rand Miller goes behind the scenes of the development of one of the best selling PC games of all time, Myst. The HyperCard-developed noscript ran into some snags when trying to run on the CD-ROM format. "I had a really powerful Mac, with…
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Lessons in Managing Haskell Memory
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